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Rasmus Bååth (Data Scientist at Castle.io)

Tired of looking at #Covid_19 visualizations? Here's the original data showing that #handwashing works, straight from Dr. #Semmelweis' original publication on how doctors washing their hands drastically reduced childbed fever.

Data (csv) here: https://t.co/e2Aaq6lAB6 pic.twitter.com/a5pkx2GdLc

— Rasmus Bååth (@rabaath) March 20, 2020

and ofcourse the Google Doodle of today that led me to discover more about Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis. Image

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Mihir Patel

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Reanalyse the data behind one of the most important discoveries of modern medicine: handwashing. Scraped a table off of wikipedia page to show off little bit to be honest.

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